A person was pronounced dead after an officer-involved shooting in northeast Charlotte Tuesday afternoon, according to police. Hours later a large crowd had gathered near the scene in protest.

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The incident happened around 4 p.m. at The Village at College Downs apartment complex on the 9600 block of Old Concord Road. Officers said they were searching for a person with an outstanding warrant when they saw a person get out of a vehicle with a firearm.

When the person got back into the vehicle, the officers approached. The report states the person then got back out of the vehicle "armed with a firearm and posed an imminent deadly threat to the officers who subsequently fired their weapon striking the subject."

The officers said they immediately requested MEDIC and began performing CPR. The person shot was then taken to Carolinas Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased.

Police said a firearm "the subject was holding at the time of the shooting" was recovered at the scene, and that detectives were interviewing witnesses to the incident.

The officer who fired the shot has not been identified, but a police source told WBTV he is African-American.

A woman claiming to be the daughter of the man shot live-streamed the scene on Facebook for more than an hour after the shooting.

In the video, she said her father was unarmed when he was shot.

She said he was sitting in his vehicle reading a book and waiting for the school bus to drop off his son. In the video, she is heard saying police came up to the man, yelled for him to get his hands up and broke open the car window.

She claims he was stunned with a Taser and then shot four times. In the video, she said the man was disabled, didn't have a gun and was even scared of them.

The video showed tense interaction between the neighborhood and police as the police pushed the crowd back further as they widened their perimeter.

From WBTV's Sky3 a heavy police presence could be seen roping off a large area at the scene shortly after the incident.By 9 p.m., large crowds had gathered in the area. Some were shouting at police, some held signs that read "Black Lives Matter" and "It Was A Book." It appeared at one point the crowds were blocking patrol cars from moving in the street.

As is standard protocol with any officer-involved shooting, the Internal Affairs Bureau will conduct a parallel investigation to determine whether CMPD policies and procedures were followed and the officer will be placed on administrative leave.